[somat]

The REST term triggers me. It should not. I should just let it go. But whenever someone says REST 99% of the time they mean HTTP and 98% of the time it is json over HTTP. REST is a specific access pattern where you ship the application required to respond to the query with every query. It is the REpresentational State of the REpresentational State Transfer. And while REST does not have to be html the web browser is realistically the only piece of tech in our stack that can actually do something with a representational state, which is a long winded way to say if you are not shipping html your transfer probably is not REST. json is not REST. in fact REST is almost always a human interface thing. if your transferred data is intended to be processed by machine. it is probably not REST.

Really, i just find it funny how Roy Fielding said "hey this web thing is actually doing something really novel in data access patterns lets give it a name so we can talk about it" and everyone collectively had a huge brain fart and said "Got it. HTTP == REST"